trudat15 wrote:I have a 174 (retake from a 164) and emailed Georgetown asking for a fee waiver, as I saw others on the forum have gotten them (some based on lower LSATs as I know Georgetown takes highest) and heard back today that I dont qualify for a merit based fee waiver. And I actually went to Georgetown undergrad! Too bad as I really wanted to and probably will still apply there.

Is your GPA bad? Its either that, or the trend I noticed before is true in fact indicative of their policy, that being only to give fee waivers to URM's with good hards.

Can't be true, I got a fee-based waiver with my LSAT (170). I'm a minority, but not URM.

trudat15 wrote:I have a 174 (retake from a 164) and emailed Georgetown asking for a fee waiver, as I saw others on the forum have gotten them (some based on lower LSATs as I know Georgetown takes highest) and heard back today that I dont qualify for a merit based fee waiver. And I actually went to Georgetown undergrad! Too bad as I really wanted to and probably will still apply there.

Is your GPA bad? Its either that, or the trend I noticed before is true in fact indicative of their policy, that being only to give fee waivers to URM's with good hards.

Can't be true, I got a fee-based waiver with my LSAT (170). I'm a minority, but not URM.

I haven't kept track of waivers received via snail mail, because none of them were remotely interesting to me. Schools I'd never go to in states I don't have any interest in living in. Why they waste their postage, I have no idea...

Maury Levy wrote:Has anyone who took in Dec 09 received anything this summer?

I got a ton in Dec/Jan, but it's been almost completely quiet since spring.

Nope.. same problem here, nothing besides random info crap from Seattle U. May have to contact individual schools and let them know we have interest. Seems like top law schools would be able to sort be expected enrollment date. My CRS profile on LSAC clearly lists 2011.

Maury Levy wrote:Has anyone who took in Dec 09 received anything this summer?

I got a ton in Dec/Jan, but it's been almost completely quiet since spring.

Nope.. same problem here, nothing besides random info crap from Seattle U. May have to contact individual schools and let them know we have interest. Seems like top law schools would be able to sort be expected enrollment date. My CRS profile on LSAC clearly lists 2011.

Yeah, I'm planning to send solicitations directly to those on my list to apply to.

Of course, Cooley and Regent keep sending me snail mail love. It's been making for great gum wrappers around the house.

Just spammed........errr, contacted about a dozen law school with a basic name, info, lsac #, lsat score, and gpa email saying i was interested in info/possible fee waiver and, within 10min got one from UC boulder

I'm also curious, since last cycle UVA didn't send them out until late August, and UCLA didn't send them until September. Were these unsolicited fee waivers or did you email those schools and aks for a fee waiver? I'd really like to know because I want to apply to both of those schools and would like to save a couple hundred bucks.

Just want to mention that I requested info and a waiver to Emory. Let's just say their response does not make me want to apply there. Also curious that they responded a few minutes before 5am EST. Until this point, every other school had at least responded in kind with information as to what I had specifically asked about, despite being unable to grant me a fee waiver.

JakeL wrote:Just want to mention that I requested info and a waiver to Emory. Let's just say their response does not make me want to apply there. Also curious that they responded a few minutes before 5am EST. Until this point, every other school had at least responded in kind with information as to what I had specifically asked about, despite being unable to grant me a fee waiver.

Haha once I emailed a school a question about visits being documented in our app record. I received a single word answer "No.".. it was quite intriguing

Emailed 16 schools today. Got a UVA fee waiver. Most said they either didn't give merit based waivers, would give them out via LSAC (couldn't request them), or said they weren't starting distributing them till september. For example WUSTL, told me I qualified but I had to email back after they begin accepting apps.

dabbadon8 wrote:Emailed 16 schools today. Got a UVA fee waiver. Most said they either didn't give merit based waivers, would give them out via LSAC (couldn't request them), or said they weren't starting distributing them till september. For example WUSTL, told me I qualified but I had to email back after they begin accepting apps.

Good to know, thanks for the post. I'm going to wait until September at the earliest to email requests for merit based waivers.

JakeL wrote:Just want to mention that I requested info and a waiver to Emory. Let's just say their response does not make me want to apply there. Also curious that they responded a few minutes before 5am EST. Until this point, every other school had at least responded in kind with information as to what I had specifically asked about, despite being unable to grant me a fee waiver.